Banja Luka

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

A city of north-central Bosnia and Herzegovina northwest of Sarajevo. Ruled at various times by Turkey and Austria, Banja Luka became part of Yugoslavia after World War I. Population: 221,000.

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Examples

The pope is in Bosnia celebrating mass in Banja Luka, which is in the Serbian dominated republic within Bosnia, on the site of a infamous World War II massacre, in which some 2700 Serbs, including about 500 children, were killed by Croatian fascists.

It is a reality that Sonja Brankovic, a 28-year-old Bosnian woman witnessed at Sunday morning Liturgy, in the Serbian Orthodox monastery Saint Ilija, Krupa, near Banja Luka, a few days before Pascha Easter 2011.